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ONE TERRITORY, PINEROLO INFINITE Viale Giolitti 7/9 TORINO (+39) 0121.795589 • Piazza Castello/via Garibaldi [email protected] EMOTIONS. • Piazza Carlo Felice • Torino Airport (interactive totem) Contact centre (+39) 011.535181 [email protected] PRAGELATO Piazza Lantelme BARDONECCHIA (+39) 0122.741728 Piazza De Gasperi 1 [email protected] (+39) 0122.99032 [email protected] Sauze d’OULX Viale Genevris 7 (+39) 0122.858009 CESANA TORINESE [email protected] Piazza Vittorio Amedeo 3 (+39) 0122.89202 [email protected] SESTRIERE Via Pinerolo 19 (SR 23) CLAVIERE (+39) 0122.755444 Via Nazionale 30 [email protected] (+39) 0122.878856 [email protected] SUSA Corso Inghilterra 39 (+39) 0122.622447 IVREA [email protected] Piazza Ottinetti (+39) 0125.618131 [email protected] www.turismotorino.org A CITY YOU Amsterdam 1h45’ BACAU 2h40’ Barcelona 1h30’ ALGHERO 1h05’ BERLINO TxL 1h40’ WOULDN’T EXPECT BARI 1h35’ BIRMINGHAM 1h05’ BRINDISI 1h45’ BRISTOL 1h05’ Cagliari 1h25’ BRUxelles 1h50’ Catania 1h55’ BUCAREST 2h15’ Lamezia TERME 1h45’ Casablanca 2h NAPOLI 1h20’ DUBLIN 1h20’ PALERMO 1h35’ EDIMBURGO 2h35’ PESCARA 1h20’ FRANkFÜRT 1h25’ Reggio CALABRIA 1h55’ IAŞI 1h40’ ROMA FIUMICINO 1h10’ Istanbul 2h55’ ot Trapani 1h40’ urism orino LONDON GATWICk 1h50’ w.t .or LONDON LUTON 1h40’ w g/ VENEZIA LONDON STANSED 2h w en MADRID 1h50’ MANCHESTER 2h10’ MILANO MOSCOW DOMODEDOVO 4h40 Monaco 1h10’ TORINO PARIS CDG 1h25’ TIRANA 1h50’ valencia 1h50’ BOLOGNA varsavia 2h15’ Lively and elegant, always in movement, nonetheless Torino is incredibly a city set in the heart of verdant areas: FIRENZE gently resting on the hillside and enclosed by the winding Moskvá ANCONA 4h02’ course of the River Po, it owes much of its charm to its Dublin enchanting location at the foot of the western Alps, watched ROMA BOLOGNA 2h FIRENZE 2h38’ over by snowy peaks. MESTRE 3h28’ London Amsterdam MILANO 44’ NAPOLI 5h NAPOLI The first Capital of Italia invites you to discover its ancient and Bruxelles Düsseldorf BARI PADOVA 3h12’ modern history, the palaces and museums, the parks and tree-lined Frankfurt OLBIA BRINDISI PESARO 3h28’ REGGIO EMILIA 1h40’ avenues, the river and the hills, the restaurants and historic coffee Paris RIMINI 3h08’ München Wien ROMA 3h48’ houses, the long colonnaded streets and the multiethnic Iaşi CAGLIARI SALERNO 5h49’ neighbourhoods, the great events and the many little pleasures Genève VENEZIA 3h40’ Lyon which have always made it unique, in a balance between the Milano Venezia rational Roman town layout, the measured pomp of Piemonte Torino Bologna LYON 3h47’ PARIS 5h44’ Firenze baroque and the originality of the modern and contemporary Barcelona architecture. Madrid Roma Lisboa Istanbul PALERMO Napoli CATANIA Come to Torino, live it, breathe its spirit… Ibiza Cagliari you’re sure to be taken completely by surprise! Casablanca Palermo In the heart. Worn. In a pocket: ObjecTo is the city’s Text: Turismo Torino e Provincia - Ufficio Comunicazione. Layout: Art. Photo credits: Archivio fotografico Turismo Torino e Provincia, Città di Torino, Archivio fotografico Provincia di Torino “Andrea Vettoretti”, Regione Piemonte; Artesia, Aurora, Bardonecchia Ski, Città di Carmagnola, City Sightseeing Italy, Consolata Pralormo Design, merchandising range. Original, Consorzio La Venaria Reale, EPAT, Intesa Sanpaolo, istock, LaPresse, MAUTO-Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Parco Naturale Collina di Superga, Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Power Press, Slow Food, Teatro Regio Torino, Torino Film Festival, Turin Marathon, symbolic, sometimes humorous, Zoom Torino, www.historicando.net, www.pho-to.it, www.phototravel.it, Filippo Alfero, Enrico Aretini, Daniele Badolato, Filippo Beraudo di Pralormo, Bruna Biamino, Mattia Boero, Dario Bonetto, Roberto Borgo, Andrea Cappello, Michele D’Ottavio, Celestino Geninatti Chiolero, Andrea Guermani, M. Manuel Hernandez, these are the souvenirs that best Iris Kuerschner, Marco Leonardi, Paolo Meitre Libertini, Pierandrea Monni, Michele Ottino, Elio Pallard, Silvia Pastore, Aldo Pavan, Ivano Piva, Donia Prengemann, Francesco Radino, Ramella&Giannese, Veronica Rossi, Agnese Samà, Marco Saroldi, Max Sarotto, Alberto Surico, Max Tomasinelli, Giancarlo Tovo, Michele Vacchiano. represent Torino and its many faces. Translation: Roger Gibson. Closing date for this edition: October 2016. Not to be missed! www.objecto.it City Sightseeing Torino is a valuable ally in your time spent in Torino. By means of this “panoramic” double-decker bus you will be able to discover the city’s many souls, travelling on 3 lines: Torino City Centre, Unexpected If you decide to stay in Torino Torino, Royal Residences. or the surrounding areas for your You can’t get more convenient than that… holiday, our Hotel & Co. service lets www.turismotorino.org/en/citysightseeing you reserve your stay at any time directly online. Book now! www.turismotorino.org/en/book 2 HOW MANY MUSEUMS Did you know that the museums of Torino are great for children too? You’ll find out at the Regional Museum of Natural ARE THERE IN TORINO? Sciences, the Borgo Medievale, at Museum A come Ambiente about the environment, the Museum of School and Books for young children, the Museum of Fruit, at the Astronomy You should discover the diversity of Torino On Monte dei Cappuccini, in a panoramic Park Infini-To in Pino Torinese: through its many amazing museums, position over the city and the Alps, stands the tours, workshops and games testifying to the history, culture, industry and National Museum of the Mountain, started for the whole family! internationality of the city. in 1874 to ideally unite the mountains of the entire world. Already back in 1824, François Champollion - who deciphered the hieroglyphs - wrote Torino is also the Italian capital of today’s about the Egyptian Museum (second only to - and tomorrow’s! - art, with international the one in Cairo) that “the road to Memphis institutions such as GAM-Gallery of Modern and Thebes passes through Torino”. and Contemporary Art, the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, the Merz In the early 1900s, our city was the birthplace Foundation, the Giovanni e Marella Agnelli of Italian cinema: it was therefore inevitable Art Gallery, the Rivoli Castle Museum that here was created the National Museum of Contemporary Art, all home to major of Cinema in the glorious setting of the exhibitions and precious permanent Mole Antonelliana. collections. www.tu rism Many buildings bear witness to the love of But the city itself is a veritable ot the House of Savoy for culture: the Royal open-air museum, with o ri Armoury, one of Europe’s richest, the Savoy works by world famous n o Gallery with a collection of Italian and artists such as the igloo .o r Flemish art, the Museum of Ancient Art at by Merz, the “Arte g / Madama Palace and the National Museum of povera” of Penone, e the Italian Risorgimento in Carignano Palace. the complex of the n PAV-Living Art Park... Torino’s industrial vocation has found its and it is in continual exhibition centre in the renovated MAUTO- transformation! National Automobile Museum which tells of the city’s automotive history and the social issues related to it. 4 ROYAL RESIDENCES Relive the atmospheres of bygone times Along the River Po is Valentino Castle, built One of the most ancient of Savoy residences Lastly, just a few kilometres outside Torino, and of Torino as the first Capital of Italia by Christine of France in the French style and is the monumental Moncalieri Castle which the elegant Ducal Castle of Agliè is in the glorious Royal Residences, home to now housing the Faculty of Architecture of was a defensive bulwark in medieval times surrounded by a park with ancient trees and the life and power of the House of Savoy: Torino Polytechnic. and transformed by the Savoy into a place for contains precious furnishings and collections; a “crown of delights” that characterises educating the young princes. in Cavour Castle at Santena the famous and encircles the city, forming a unicum in Just a short way from the centre, the hill statesman initiated and held the most Europe, recognised as a World Heritage Site embraces Villa della Regina, surrounded by Built in the 11th century, Rivoli Castle became important political meetings; at Susa Castle by UNESCO in 1997. Italianate gardens with pavilions, fountains a courtly residence in the early 1600s, but the marriage between the Countess Adelaïde and agricultural areas. the subsequent project by Juvarra remained and Otto of Savoy marked the origin of the Right in the centre, in Piazza Castello, there unfinished: the Museum of Contemporary Art Savoy dynasty. are the majestic Royal Palace - which, with The “crown” is completed by a wonderful is therefore housed in an original architectural the Savoy Gallery, the Royal Armoury, collection of castles and residences in the context. the Royal Library and the Archaeological surrounding areas. Museum, form the Royal Museums of Torino The incredible Royal Palace of Venaria now La Mandria Castle was the favourite of Victor residenzer w. eal - and Madama Palace with its magnificent hosts major events, exhibitions and concerts Emmanuel II: the Royal Apartments, perfectly ww i.it baroque facade and the Museum of Ancient in its magnificent interiors and spectacular preserved, reveal the intimate and family Art filled with beautiful works.